How did I miss this entirely last year?

One year ago, NPR Music sent a survey to "hundreds" of working musicians who happen to be female, and got 700 responses. They called it, "Hey Ladies: Being A Woman Musician Today". This main page links to all the responses organized by subject, and to the series of articles arising from the project. (Note: Each time you reload this page, you get a different top bit featuring a quote and some stats.)

Here's an overview of the project with the list of questions, a link to all the answers (unsorted), and various other links.

There was also reader/listener discussion, of course, via a Facebook page.

Lots to look at.

I got to the story by checking out the page for an article about the International Sweethearts of Rhythm (a 1940s all-woman, mixed-race big band), which aired yesterday.

~ Becky in Long Beach